From Newsgroup: comp.lang.python

From <https://peps.python.org/pep-0686/>:

Additionally, many Python developers using Unix forget that the
default encoding is platform dependent. They omit to specify
encoding="utf-8" when they read text files encoded in UTF-8 (e.g.
JSON, TOML, Markdown, and Python source files). Inconsistent
default encoding causes many bugs.

(Raises hand) Guilty.
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